Entropy and temperature
By: by Oscar Biblarz
Contributors: Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
Publisher: Naval Postgraduate School
Published: 1972
Place of publication: Monterey, California
Language: eng
Number of pages: 27
Subjects: Entropy
Description: The article is written in the style of Scientific American. A minimum of mathematics is used in the presentation of a new approach to the understanding of the Second Law of thermodynamics. The intended readers are engineering students who have been exposed to a standard version of undergraduate thermodynamics (such as AE 2042). It is shown here that, by extending the use of entropy and of temperature to nonequilibrium situations, a more complete formulation of the Second Law is possible. Applications of the foegoing concept to fluid flow, to chemical reactions, and to lasers are presented. (Author)
Notes: Title from cover.

"December 1972"--Cover.

"NPS-57ZI72121A"--Cover.

Author(s) subject terms: Thermodynamics, second law, irreversibility, work and heat transfer, nonequilibrium temperature and entropy, turbulence, Gibbs and Helmholtz potentials, lasers.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 24)

Technical report; 1972.